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About the Book
This many layered first novel does for medical malpractice what House of God did for medical training. Often laugh-out-loud funny, yet with a serious theme, Bringing Back Eight is a unique inside look at a medical malpractice trial, told by a physician-defendant thrust into the bizarre, sometimes Alice-in-Wonderland world of a civil trial. Dr. Joseph Charles is one of eight physicians being sued for not diagnosing an infection that has left a man paralyzed. He tells his story in the present tense––you see it as it happens––you learn how it feels to be on the receiving end of a summons. And unlike almost all novels involving the law, this story is told from the viewpoint of a defendant, not an attorney. The malpractice trial reveals the often surprising ways the lives of both the plaintiff and the defendants are affected. What starts as issues of medical judgments and physical pain quickly evolve into a question of money. All the participants-plaintiff, defendants, witnesses-are reduced to pawns in a chess game played by attorneys.
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